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Currently as we prepare for the 2019-2020 series of Vattikuti Fellowships, we would invite other interested Indian Academic Medical Institutions and Robotic Surgeons to apply to become part of this successful program.

Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation has announced the 2019-2020 series of Vattikuti Fellowships. Six one-year long Fellowships in Robotic Oncologic specialties will be awarded. In addition, one Vattikuti International Fellowship is offered for research at the Vattikuti Urology Institute in Detroit, Michigan, and there will be two comprehensive two-weed long Fellowships to the ATLAS Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.

Two new Vattikuti Research Fellowship grants will be given for scientific research in India.

Please use the link above to access the Abstract, with links to the complete BJUI article and to the video produced by Mr. Nicholas Raison, lead author of the study ("Mr." is the equivalent of "Dr." in the UK).

We would like to share some news about Dr. Mani Menon, Founding Director of the Vattikuti Urlogy Institute. He is hard at work developing a new robotic procedure he is calling the MPP. He uses an orange to describe what takes place- and the very encouraging early results. Please click on the title above to access the complete report.

URO Today (UroToday.com) provides a report from the ERUS 2018: ERUS Education Working Group on Education and Training, regarding minimum criteria for becoming certified as an ERUS Training Center. The overview was presented by Dr. Van der Poel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

We have been asked to post news of a job opening at a Fortis facility in Karnataka:

I am looking for a Uro-oncologist to be a part of my team at Fortis, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore. If you could circulate the requirement among the Vattikuti Urology Fellows it would be of great help. Interested candidates may contact me on my email: sandeep.nayak@fortishealthcare.com

Vattikuti Foundation CEO Dr. Mahendra Bhandari is pleased to announce that Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD and Nynke Sjoerdtje van den Berg, PhD, will be the International Faculty at the upcoming XI Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) December 1st & 2nd meetings, to be held at the Taj Vivanta Hari Mahal Hotel, Jodhpur.